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The Ambiguous Allure of the West : Traces of the Colonial in Thailand.
The Ambiguous Allure of the West examines the impact of Western imperialism on Thai cultural development from the 1850s to the present and highlights the value of postcolonial analysis for studying the ambiguities, inventions, and accommodations with the West that continue to enrich Thai culture. Si...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University, Southeast Asia Program Publications,
2018.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Foreword: The Names and Repetitions of Postcolonial History; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Note on Transliteration and Referencing; Introduction: The Allure of Ambiguity: The ""West"" and the Making of Thai Identities; 1. The Ambiguities of Semicolonial Power in Thailand; 2. An Ambiguous Intimacy: Farang as Siamese Occidentalism; 3. Competitive Colonialisms: Siam and the Malay Muslim South; 4. Mind the Gap: (En)countering the West and the Making of Thai Identities on Film; 5. Blissfully Whose? Jungle Pleasures, Ultra-modernist Cinema and the Cosmopolitan Thai Auteur.
- 6. Coming to Terms with the West: Intellectual Strategies of Bifurcation and Post-Westernism in Siam7. Wathakam: The Thai Appropriation of Foucault's ""Discourse; 8. The Conceptual Allure of the West: Dilemmas and Ambiguities of Crypto-Colonialism in Thailand; Afterword: Postcolonial Theories and Thai Semicolonial Hybridities; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.